Sun Erupts with 3rd Huge Solar Flare in 2 Days (Video)
From Space.com:
The sun is hitting its stride. Earth's closest star shot off yet another powerful solar flare today (June 11) after producing a pair of major solar storms Tuesday (June 10).
The X1-class flare reached its peak at 5:06 a.m. EDT (0906 GMT) and
came from Region 2087 near the southeastern limb of the sun's disk, the
same region of the star that produced the two powerful solar flares
yesterday. NASA captured an amazing video of the X1 solar flare using its space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory....MORE
And from Spaceweather:
INCOMING CME: Yesterday's
double X-flare may have produced a geoeffective CME after all. At first
it appeared that Earth was outside the line of fire, but a closer look
at the CME reveals an Earth-directed component. Click to view a movie of
the explosion from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory:...MORE